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Ohio Home Rule Association pamphlet, October 21, 1918

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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights - that among these are life, liberty and the pursiut of happiness." From THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
From THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
Dear Sir:
If you were called to fight your country's battles abroad and
advantage was taken of your absence to destroy rights you possessed
when you left and which you had every right to expect to find intact on
your return, wouldn't you feel deep resentment?
Do you regard it as a square deal to vote to change the conditions under which more than 150,000 Ohio citizens absent in the
armies in Europe must live when they come back home?
Three times in four years, before these voters were called to
arms, prohibition was defeated in this State, Do you believe the
issue should have been forced to an election again this year, at a
time when so many voters will not have an opportunity to express their
wishes and at a time when the highest duty to citizenship calls for
unity of action and sentiment necessary to bring the war to a successful end?
Is immediate State-wide prohibition of such overshadowing
importance that the desires of our fighting citizens abroad should be
ignored; that we should destroy millions of tax revenues and increase
our own and their already heavy tax burden; that we should vote away
our and their rights to decide whether we and they shall drink moderately or not at all; that we should vote to make it a crime to have
an alcoholic beverage in our home for our own use; a crime for the
farmer to permit his cider to become hard; a crime to permit the juice
from his grapes to ferment—a crime for any housewife to make even
elderberry or dandelion wine?
What do you say to the proposition that to use wine in the Holy

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights - that among these are life, liberty and the pursiut of happiness." From THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
From THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
Dear Sir:
If you were called to fight your country's battles abroad and
advantage was taken of your absence to destroy rights you possessed
when you left and which you had every right to expect to find intact on
your return, wouldn't you feel deep resentment?
Do you regard it as a square deal to vote to change the conditions under which more than 150,000 Ohio citizens absent in the
armies in Europe must live when they come back home?
Three times in four years, before these voters were called to
arms, prohibition was defeated in this State, Do you believe the
issue should have been forced to an election again this year, at a
time when so many voters will not have an opportunity to express their
wishes and at a time when the highest duty to citizenship calls for
unity of action and sentiment necessary to bring the war to a successful end?
Is immediate State-wide prohibition of such overshadowing
importance that the desires of our fighting citizens abroad should be
ignored; that we should destroy millions of tax revenues and increase
our own and their already heavy tax burden; that we should vote away
our and their rights to decide whether we and they shall drink moderately or not at all; that we should vote to make it a crime to have
an alcoholic beverage in our home for our own use; a crime for the
farmer to permit his cider to become hard; a crime to permit the juice
from his grapes to ferment—a crime for any housewife to make even
elderberry or dandelion wine?
What do you say to the proposition that to use wine in the Holy